By Ermin Garcia Jr. PREPOSTEROUS and nonsensical is how the members of the 7 epaLiFes are seen proceeding with their attempts to still appear rational and intelligent after their series of blunders, messing up their political future. For Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Celia Lim, Irene Lim-Acosta, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Alvin Coquia,…
LET’S DO THE KALUTAN – Senator Francis Tolentino, DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos, DOH Usec. Enrique Tayag, VG Mark Lambino, Archbishop Socrates Villegas and Mayor Belen Fernandez lead the ceremonial lighting of barbecue grills to signal the start “Kalutan ed Dalan” Bangusan Street Party on April 30 of the Bangus Festival 2023. (Punchphoto…
2023 BANGUS FESTIVAL MORE than 600,000 revelers trooped to Dagupan City last Sunday, April 30, to participate in the 2023 Bangus Festival, from the early morning Buhay Ingatan, Droga Ayawan” (BIDA) Fun Run along Jose de Venecia Expressway Extension to the “Kalutan ed Dalan” late afternoon. P/Lt. Colonel Vicente Castor…
AFTER DRUG-FREE TOWNS, CITIES IN addition to the BIDA program, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will push for the program establishing drug-free work places in every locality to finally end the drug problem in the country. BIDA, part of the whole nation approach of the current…
LEADING BY EXAMPLE — Governor Ramon Guico III administers an oral poliovirus vaccine to a four-year-old child, witnessed Dr. Valerie Anne Tesoro (left) director of the Department of Health (DOH) Health Laboratories Office, during provincial launching of Measles-Rubella Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MROPV SIA 2023). (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE provincial government and the Department of Health (DOH) – Ilocos Region recently launched the Measles Rubella and bivalent Oral Polio virus Vaccine Supplementary Immunization Activities (MR-bOPV SIA) 2023 in Lingayen town. DOH is targeting 262,944 children aged 9-59 months old that will be administered with measles, rubella (MR) vaccines…
SILG ABALOS GETS BRIEFER A BRIEFER on the passage of P864.91 million annual budget of Dagupan City was handed to Interior and Local Government Secretary Ben Hur Abalos by Mayor Belen Fernandez last April 30 when he was in Dagupan to spearhead the BIDA Fun Run and to do the…
UNIQUE DESIGNS — Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia explains to the foreign dignitaries the designs created by local artists printed on the fans presented to them as gifts. (DFAphoto)
AFTER BANGUS FESTIVAL 2023 AS a result of the just concluded 2023 Bangus Festival, four countries signified interests to make Dagupan a sister city of their respective cities to explore trade and investment possibilities for their mutual interests and benefit. This was expressed by five of 17 diplomats led by…
100 PDLs, 30 PERSONNEL PASS DRUG TESTS SOME 100 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Male Dormitory (BJMP-MD) and its 30 personnel were tested randomly and all yielded negative results. This determined the tests facilitated by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development-1…
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